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Title: Excellent Article About SEC Football Dominance Post by: Marshal Dillon on May 12, 2011, 08:54:33 AM Good breakdown and analysis.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/stewart_mandel/05/11/college-football-mailbag/index.html?eref=sihp&sct=hp_wr_a1 Title: Re: Excellent Article About SEC Football Dominance Post by: crtuneman on May 12, 2011, 10:29:33 AM I always hated Mandel. He's a hack writer with no journalistic skills at all. Although I agree with his point in this article, I disagree with his dig at the SEC about scheduling cream puffs. He blithely ignores the fact that OSU plays Ohio U every year as well as Youngstown St. And Michigan plays Div 1-AA opponents nearly every year (although that backfired when App St beat them) And the Pac 12 plays their fair share of patsies every year as well. Yet it's only the SEC that gets called out over this. Typical Mandel anti-SEC rant.
"Meanwhile, Big Ten teams will enjoy far fewer unintentional scheduling breaks, like last year's, when 11-1 Ohio State and Michigan State did not play each other. And the Pac-12, quite frankly, is now murderer's row. The teams already play nine-game conference schedules; now they've got to win a 10th. And neither conference currently employs the common SEC tactic of scheduling an FCS or Sun Belt foe for a mid-November breather." Title: Re: Excellent Article About SEC Football Dominance Post by: Old Tider on May 12, 2011, 05:40:20 PM Everyone schedules joke teams, and I wish we didn't. You can't get much lower than Georgia State and Monroe...ooops, I forgot they were better than Bama. You can't win playing losers.
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